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Snort is not compiling into mysql on CentOS x86_64 version

Posted by HoolmaaD on March 01, 2006 08:49:12

I understand the library locations are non-standard, and that mysql libraries install under /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib, but even when telling it to configure --with-mysql=/usr/lib64 (and 100 other iterations), I continue to still get: Cannot find mysqlclient libraries, and/or Cannot find mysql header locations. I have copied/moved the /include directory, the lib64/mysql locations around, even edited the ./configure script, and I get nothing but the two errors continually. I have tried ./configure --enable-mysql --with-mysql-libraries=/usr/lib64/mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql and it runs through the script without error. Then when I attempt to start Snort, it tells me: Snort is not configured to run with mysql in the error log.

I have gone through this on Suse 8.0, 9.0, 10, Enterprise, Workstation, Fedora Core 2.0, 3.0, CentOS 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, RHEL 4.0 etc etc. I have tried using source, which seems everyone's favorite solution to the problem; I have tried installing from rpm's, using the packages compiled FOR each particular platform. As long as I remain in the 32-bit world, everything works fine; as soon as I attempt an install on a 64-bit platform, the snort compilation fails everytime.

What is the "magic" configure script, or what command line switches do I need to use to get the script to truly compile?